IPVal entity, 5G IP Holdings, 5G patent found invalid

On September 5, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a final rejection of all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 10,813,163, owned and asserted by 5G IP Holdings LLC, an NPE and IP Valuation Partners, LLC entity. The '163 patent generally relates to discontinuous reception (DRX) and utilizing slots within subframes to adapt DRX to function within the 5G frame structure. The patent is currently being asserted against Apple and had previously been asserted against Samsung.

View district court litigations by 5G IP Holdings. Unified was represented by Drew Sommer at Greenberg Traurig, and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015277

Magnetar Capital entity Togail Technologies 5G patent found invalid

On August 12, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate canceling the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 10,791,502, owned by Togail Technologies Ltd., a Magnetar Capital entity. The ’502 patent relates to error-handling procedures for system information requests in communications. It had been asserted against 3GPP devices from companies including TCL Technology, Apple, Google, Motorola, and Samsung.

View district court litigations by Togail Technologies. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen, Matt Beck, and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019300

NexGen semiconductor controller patent found invalid

On August 28, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a final rejection of challenged claims 1, 5-7, and 13 of U.S. Patent 8,278,855 owned and asserted by NexGen Control Systems, LLC, an NPE. The '855 patent generally relates to control systems for electric motors. The patent was asserted against Infineon and NXP.

View district court litigations by NexGen. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Ashraf Fawzy.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019288

MDSP Technologies navigation patent found invalid

On August 26, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) issued a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate cancelling all claims of U.S. Patent 9,239,376, owned and asserted by MDSP Technologies LLC. The ‘376 patent relates to determining the position and acceleration of a mobile device using doppler aided inertial navigation. It had been asserted against Google, Apple, Samsung, Garmin, and TomTom.

View district court litigations by MDSP Technologies. Unified was represented by Patrick Muldoon, John Baird, and Paul Belnap at Duane Morris and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015299

Bill Ramey/AiPi entity, Stasit, smartphone patent found invalid

On August 22, 2024, the CRU issued a Notice of Intent to issue a reexamination certificate canceling all claims of U.S. Patent 8,855,723, owned and asserted by Stasit, LLC, an NPE and Bill Ramey/AiPi entity. The ‘723 patent is directed to smartphones that can mask notifications of incoming calls and text messages for certain unauthorized numbers during certain times and only logging a record of those temporally unauthorized communications on a password protected log, while allowing incoming communications from authorized numbers to be handled normally (regular notification and logging on the general log). The ‘723 patent was the sole patent asserted against Apple, Meta Platforms, Google, LG, Samsung, and HTC.

View district court litigations by Stasit. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and T.J. Murphy.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019299